Quality Engineer

The Quality Engineer

At Bemis Manufacturing Company, you’re not just joining a team—you’re becoming part of a family that’s been crafting innovation, quality, and tradition for over 120 years. Rooted in Sheboygan Falls, WI, we’re driven by a commitment to creating products that make a difference in everyday life while fostering an environment where our employees can thrive, grow, and achieve their personal and professional goals.

Specific Responsibilities

• Provide quality expertise for assigned Business Unit NPD activities, including but not limited to design reviews, form, fit and function analysis, FMEA’s, etc., with the help of Engineering.
• Collaborate with customers’ quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of design.
• Make recommendations to modify customer part specifications and tolerances as necessary to support cost effective production.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, efficiency, and reduce scrap.
• Lead PPM improvement plan for strategic customers.
• Be a technical resource for the initiation and implementation of cost improvement plans on new and existing programs.
• Determine when process stability and capability studies should be performed on existing processes.
• Review and analyze results.
• Recommend changes to processes based upon findings and perform follow up to verify effectiveness.
• Implement/support systems and procedures that assure compliance with the quality management system.
• Coverage measurements, layouts and testing as needed.
• Develop and submit PPAP documents for new product launches to meet customer requirements.
• Provide leadership, direction, and clear information to manufacturing floor employees regarding product quality, quality systems requirements and operational methods.
• Receive and remedy customer complaints, document corrective actions and provide leadership to teams for root cause analysis and solution implementation.
• Review and disposition warranty claims in partnership with Sales and Customer Service teams.
• Use and promote the use of statistics and other analytical tools for evaluating and improving product quality.
• Complete trend analysis for quality metrics, such as customer complaints, rework, and scrap to develop continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support and recommend improvements to the overall quality management system.
• Travel to other facilities or customers may be required to support business needs.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, or 2 year degree with 3-5 years experience in Quality
• 3-5 years of experience in Quality.
• 3-5 years of experience operating under a certified quality management system (AITF 16949, ISO 9001:2015).
• Recognition by ASQ as a CQE (Certified Quality Engineer), CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer), or CQM (Certified Quality Manager) is beneficial.
• Experience dealing with plastic and plastic processes is beneficial.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proactive and takes action without being prompted.
• Ability to present information and respond to questions from managers, sales, and customers.
• Project management skills with a history of accomplishment.
• Strong communication and demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional work groups including supplies, customers, and associates, both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent listening skills.
• Diplomacy, skills handling situations without arousing hostility. Forge coalitions.
• Strong computer skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office required.
• Experiences with other quality software applications (statistical analysis), beneficial.